On Tuesday, October 15, 2019 2:02 PM, Jason Cobb <jason.e.c...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 10/15/19 6:53 AM, Timon Walshe-Grey wrote: > > Further philosophising: if all the rules_were_ combined into one rule, > > would > > there be any meaningful semantic difference from the current "ruleset"? Or > > would > > Agora cease to exist as we know it and be replaced by something even more > > bizarre > > and inexplicable? And would we know if this had already happened? > > If you're referring to actually merging everything into a single rule, > then that would be many rule-changes governed by R105, so it really > couldn't happen without someone knowing.
Ah, you're not thinking far enough outside the box! What if the Unified Rule legislated for the Rulekeepor to track "sub-rules" individually and refer to them as "Rules" in their own right? It could have happened sometime pre-2002 and therefore not show up in the modern agora-business archives. Agora as we know it today could just be a subgame of an ancient proto-nomic, with no way for us to tell from the inside! Not that I think this is actually likely, it was mostly just an excuse for a Hitchhiker's reference. -twg
